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Legislation services

Part of: Professional services Syndicated

This contract covers specialised legislative drafting and related services to participating agencies.

Key details

Status

Current View dates

Type

Syndicated

Lead agency

Parliamentary Counsel Office

Contact

contact@pco.govt.nz

What's covered

This contract covers following services:

Service 1A: Legislative drafting and review of services for Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO)

This service includes drafting or reviewing draft legislation in accordance with PCO’s standards for high-quality legislation, assisting in developing standard provisions, and working for PCO’s Pacific desk (providing legislative assistance to Pacific nations).

Service 1B: Legislative drafting and review services for participating agencies

This service includes drafting or reviewing draft legislation in accordance with PCO’s standards for high-quality legislation and/or standards specified by the participating agency. 

Service 2A: Legislation design and delivery advice and support

This service includes advice on the development of legislation (including design and process), the preparation or review of drafting instructions, advice and comment on draft legislation, and services relating to developing, making, and publishing legislation.

Service 2B: Legislative stewardship

This service includes the promotion of high-quality legislation that is easy to find, use, and understand. For example, delivering training for, and assistance to, drafters, projects to improve accessibility of legislation on agency websites, and projects relating to delivery of dual language legislation.

What's not covered

Certain areas of legal work, not related to legislation services, are not within scope of this panel. This includes litigation, mediation, and arbitration work. Any service that does not align under 1A, 1B, 2A or 2B above, is out of scope.

How it works

The legislation services panel is open to any agency that drafts legislation, administers primary or secondary legislation, or instructs the Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO).

To join the panel as a participating agency, you should:

  1. Obtain a copy of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) by emailing the lead agency (Attention: Legislation Services Panel)
  2. Review MOU and check that you can meet your obligations under the MOU
  3. Appoint a suitably experienced and qualified representative to manage the relationship with suppliers
  4. Sign a Letter of Accession (LoA) agreeing to the terms of the MOU and return to PCO.

To procure services, you must issue a Legal and Related Services Order (LRSO) in accordance with the terms of the Services Agreement between PCO and that panel supplier. You can obtain a copy of the LRSO by emailing the lead agency (Attention: Legislation Services Panel).

Features and benefits

The key objective of this contract is to support agencies with legislative drafting and developing of secondary legislation and related support services.

The contract will also help build capability of legislation services and increase access for suppliers to legal, policy and legislative design work across government.

Dates and renewal details

Start date:
Current term end date:
Contract Terms:
Three years + one right of renewal of three years
Renewals left: none

Suppliers

There are 18 suppliers on this panel, but three chose to remain un-named. You can select any of the 18 suppliers who best meet your requirements. For a full list of suppliers, email the PCO agency contact, attention: Legislation Services Panel.

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